In President Obama's State of the Union speech last night he maintained that the United States was on the road to economic recovery. In fact, the delusional Barack Hussein Obama said exactly this:

"After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs. We buy more American cars than we have in five years, and less foreign oil than we have in twenty. Â Our housing market is healing, our stock market is rebounding, and consumers, patients, and homeowners enjoy stronger protections than ever before. "

"Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger."

It is sure interesting that Mr Obama talks about us buying more cars than we have in 5 years, while at the same time the once powerful city of Detroit, Michigan which was in the 60's and 70's the hub of the car industry in America, is now a virtual wasteland. It has gone from the symbol of American prosperity and industry and it has been transformed into a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic Mad Max type landscape.

Unfortunately, our politicians cannot see that what is happening in Detroit is simply a microcosm of what is happening to the entire American experiment. President Obama brazenly boasts, "that the state of our union is stronger." Well here are 11 facts about the city of Detroit Michigan which say that we are not on the road to recovery, not at all:

Detroit was once the fourth-largest city in the United States, and it was once home to close to 2 million people. However, according to the 2010 census, only 713,000 people now live in Detroit.

The population of Detroit has declined by about 25 percent over the past decade.Â The last time the population of Detroit was this low was back in 1910.

Due to budget cutbacks, most police stations in Detroit are now closed to the public for 16 hours a day.

That's just one city in America that used to be a main industrial hub, which it is no longer. Not only is Detroit near total collapse, it was once the icon of an industry President Obama cited in his State of The Union speech which is supposedly in recovery.

There is President Obama and his Socialist delusion, then there is reality. Detroit Michigan is reality.

In 2008 the price of bunker fuel oil – the stuff that move the parts for the car industry from China to Detroit cost $800 per day to run a container ship from Shanghai to San Francisco. By October this price rose to $1100 per day. The ships stopped running. The factories simply could not afford that kind of price. They laid off thousands of workers. The President had freed up loan giving to people who lived across the Red Line and so now all that debt (which was bundled up in something the markets called a security) found itself all over America and the world. The economy and the banks literally went bust! They have been bailed out by the government printing money – inflationary policies – that will soon come back to bite everyone! The oil is still scarce despite the rubbish the fracking industry tell you. (Their estimates were downgraded by 80% by Wall St shortly after Obama declared the end of Peak oil and gas forever! What an idiot!). The fact is Detroit is dead because of the world’s reliance on oil (particularly China’s reliance on it). In roughly 40 years there will be another huge economic crash, but this time it will probably lead to nuclear war.

There are a lot of elements involved with the decay of inner city Detroit – white flight would be one of them, not to mention the city being sliced by expressways, and a corrupt city government that has been allowed to thrive for decades. I’m not really sure what this has to do with Obama. It’s not as though Detroit was any better off when Bush was president, or even Clinton. Overall, the point of this piece is moot.

I was born in detroit–moved out then moved back into detroit–now I live outside detoit—its truly killing me to see how it all went to hell, one block I used to live on has apx, 2 houses left on it–the others burnt out and blown up—wtf has happened to people and their sense of responsible ownership–they want to live in and like trash that’s being dealt from free stuff—then they sit back get lazy and don’t care about a damn thing—this has me realy pissed off about people and what’s happened. this attitude has to stop and now!–else we be drawn to live with rats and bugs–not me!–not my kids—screw that. and they wonder why we don’t want everyone resting on common codes of responsibility and decency.

I was born in detroit–moved out then moved back into detroit–now I live outside detoit—its truly killing me to see how it all went to hell, one block I used to live on has apx, 2 houses left on it–the others burnt out and blown up—wtf has happened to people and their sense of responsible ownership–they want to live in and like trash that’s being dealt from free stuff—then they sit back get lazy and don’t care about a damn thing—this has me realy pissed off about people and what’s happened. this attitude has to stop and now!–else we be drawn to live with rats and bugs–not me!–not my kids—screw that. and they wonder why we don’t want everyone resting on common codes of responsibility and decency.

I don’t know what everyone is complaining about…mr. obama is the greatest pres.that this country has even seen..just look at race relations getting better, and look at all of the new jobs created, also take a good look at our gas prices going way down..and also food prices are very affordable..our roads and bridges are now in great shape thanks to the great mr. obama.also I think he is the most honest pres that we have ever had…thanks obama.

I don’t know what everyone is complaining about…mr. obama is the greatest pres.that this country has even seen..just look at race relations getting better, and look at all of the new jobs created, also take a good look at our gas prices going way down..and also food prices are very affordable..our roads and bridges are now in great shape thanks to the great mr. obama.also I think he is the most honest pres that we have ever had…thanks obama.

Perhaps this article is a testiment to what Unions, the Left and Social Handouts can accompilsh. The auto industry is alive and well in America, it has moved to places where they receive better treatment from both the government and their employees.

this article was on face book and at the very end of the bloggs some one wrote is biden to be the interm president and then went on to explain that the courts were questioning obama’s eligability to be president questioning his citizenship what pass ports he travelled on back and forth to pakistan when pakistan was of limis to american citizenship to jarkrta oxnard college released his education application for a foreign student for a fulbright scholarship which is for foreign students but eric holder was holding the court order up. I wonder why it keeps being removed from face book I have put it there about 6 times and poof it is gone.

You truly offend my sensibilities with this nonsense. I know how much you detest facts and truth when they don’t fit your myopic views, but here’s some real data for you to digest (you could have done this yourself to save a little embarrassment by simply googling Detroit unemployment rate – you’d get a nice graph spanning the last 22 years):

Clinton takes office in 92, Detroit’s unemployment was 15.9% in November that year.
Clinton is re-elected in 96, Detroit’s unemployment was 9.6% in November that year.
Bush is elected in 2000, Detroit’s unemployment was 6.9% in November that year.
Bush is re-elected in 2004, Detroit’s unemployment was 14.5% in November that year.
Obama is elected in 2008, Detroit’s unemployment was 17.5% in November that year.
Obama is re-elected in 2012, Detroit’s unemployment was 17.6% in November that year.

Looking at this, it seems that Clinton and Obama did better for Detroit than Bush did.

Detroit’s population in 1950 was just less than 2 million. It’s been in a steady decline since that time to just 778k in the 2010 census. Again, nothing you can look at and say “It’s Obama”. You can’t even say “The left did this”.

Interestingly enough, Detroit’s population peaked in 1950 – after growing under 3 terms of FDR and a Truman term. That seems to be counter to the claims made in this “article”.

I might add that Barry Soetoro (aka POTUS) might be more factually right than we would like to admit. Consider his statements and my [rebuttals]: “After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs. [he started counting job gains after 5 million were lost which equals a net gain of 1 million] We buy more American cars than we have in five years [less total car sales overall, but maybe more American car sales with government subsidies & government purchases and it only takes 1 additional car to mean “more” – very possible; however unimpressive], and less foreign oil than we have in twenty years [due to such low demand]. Our housing market is healing [high sales activity is due to market stress; prices can’t help but increase after such significant loss in value], our stock market is rebounding [it doesn’t equal higher value, especially after the printing presses with quantitative easing & inflation], and consumers, patients, and homeowners enjoy stronger protections than ever before. [protection = control and implementation was pushed back so we would not feel the pain until after re-election]”. I think he’s factually correct, but his supporters are too dumb to realize what it really means.

James is right to say that Barry Soetoro (aka POTUS) doesn’t own all the problems of Detroit; however, the author uses Detroit as an example of how bad things are and getting worse despite his claims of victory.

The decline of the City of Detroit didn’t happen overnight nor did it happen on the Obama watch. Competing internationally is not an easy task. Lot’s of employee concessions have been made to keep the auto industry afloat. Other locations around the United States have the man/women power and a significantly better environment for raising a family. So, what is your point? We can make weak minded people believe the spin and make the President appear to be responsible for all the ills in this nation? Whether eight or eighty — grow up!

I lived in northern Ohio, when growing up and as a teen, went to Detroit many times “on dates” or going out with the girls”. I remember the whole motown thing. Yes detroit has some bad areas/slums, but nothing like today. There still were factories, stores, malls, middle and upper class homes…… What a shame. I saw a special a couple of years ago, where Detroit was offering some of these beautiful old delapitated homes, in certain areas, at a very affordable price. They just wanted the neighborhoods to slowly come back. They wanted families to move it. I thought it was a good idea. But I wonder now, if it worked, or due to everything that’s happened, failed?

The president has grown bold in his lies and misdirections, thanks to a liberal media of incredibly corrupt white people and the gullibility of blacks and many other minorities. I think another 4 years of this self-serving narcissist will permanently cripple the country, never to return to its once-possible potential following WWII.

Unfortunately, Anthony, I think we have already passed the tipping point. America has already passed its peak. It’s all downhill from here. It will take a miracle to recover from the damage the left has done. It wasn’t all the work of Obama, but he surely pushed the nation over the edge.

Tom Barber this country is in pretty deep but I don’t think its over just yet. First step would be to get congress on the job and block all these “executive orders” that BO has been signing then to somehow remove him from office. We need someone who has COMMON SENSE in there as well as pride in the constitution and AMERICA. We need to instill in America and her people the desire to better themselves. I for one believe that there are still a lot of people out there, who given a chance, could start to turn this country around and get it moving in the right direction once more. HOW ABOUT YOU PEOPLE IN DETROIT? Do YOU want to do better? Or are you satisfied with the life you are living now? It’s up to you! You can fight to improve yourself or keep on keeping on.

Me too. Born on Forer Street in Detroit in 1963. My family hurriedly moved out to Livonia in 1969. At the time, I didn’t understand why the move was so sudden. Several years later, I found out a girl had been murdered in the alley behind our old house only weeks after we left.

This is a shame! I remember when houses like this in Detroit were beautiful, I read a book how the plan was to do away with industry in this country and send it to Europe! All GM car parts are from CHINA and other Asian countries. They have killed our country I don’t know who all is responsible but I know this if they don’t get factories and mills back here we are going to be a third world country! Book Committee of 300, This has been going on a long time!

The work is coming back now. It’s actually cheaper to build things here than to build them overseas and ship them back – especially now that technology has progressed to the point that your labor is no longer required. All those factories and mills are being taken over by robotics – and where does that leave you? We can’t all be retail clerks and waiters.

It might be a good time to look at how our economy operates and where we fit in now – it’s not the same as it was 100 years ago, and in 100 more years if we continue this course, we’re looking at a 70 to 80% unemployment rate and more than 50% below poverty – while the corporations continue to make massive profits selling to overseas markets.

For those that are worried about being killed by a drone, I have good news! Some tech-geeks have come up with a way to reverse the command so that the drone is redirected to destroy the command sender instead of the inital target! The command sender has no way of knowing it is the new target! Won’t take long for this to put a cramp in the use of drones!

It wasn’t the unions; it was the greed of CEO’s and upper level management. When will you people stop blaming the unions for the corporate greed that ruined not just the auto industry, but others as well i.e. Hostess.

I was there. My dad worked for Chrysler and was a union member (he had no choice), but whenever a vote on a new contract came up, he warned his fellow union members that, in the end, the demands the union was making would cost them more than it would benefit them. He was right. True, the CEO’s share some of the blame, but the unions kept demanding more and more pay and benefits for less and less work (due to their unreasonable work rules) and protected the jerks who should have been fired for their laziness and dishonesty. You can’t run a business that way, and expect to prosper.

Odd, isn’t it, that a company owner might have a nice home, but the union leaders have McMansions complete with pools, luxury cars, etc. And those ‘leaders’ have not worked an hour at the job that the member is doing to pay dues, or risked a cent in building/running said company. Just WHO are the actual leeches?

I agree. This is why EVERY state in the country should be a RIGHT TO WORK STATE. If you want a union to represent you then that’s fine. But NO ONE should be MADE to join a union if they don’t want to just in order to be able to work at a job.

Ford yes it was union greed!when u let the inmates run the asylum it’s not going to be good. same as letting employees run the company i.e. congress running the country.voting themselves a raise,same thing.

Ford Remer, the unions are the primary reason so many jobs have been shipped overseas, where the labor is cheap. The union bosses take most of the cream, that is all the dues the workers have to pay to work. You should not have to pay to work.

Tina Morbach Nagaitis I worked at IBC Wonder bread and hostess for 20 years . What happened to wonder Bread was miss management by IBC . IBC did to Wonder bread Hostess is the same thing AMF did to Harly Davidson They drove it into the ground . I to lived in Detroit My famly moved out in 69 to Redford Township . What happened to Detroit , Democrapes . Democrapes had controll of Det. since 1960 50 years of Democraps rule . Albert Einstein said definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results . I do agree that some unions are out if control . Its a unions job is to protect a workers rights not shut a company down